Short stories for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor
Series: Gale virtual reference library
Publisher: Gale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781414474571; 9781414466958
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Short story; Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.
Notes: "ISSN 1092-7735."

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: By the waters of Babylon  -- by Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Daughter of invention  -- by Julia Alvarez; title: A devoted son  -- by Anita Desai; title: End of the game  -- by Julio Cortazar; title: The fence  -- by Hamsad Rangkuti; title: The garden of stubborn cats  -- by Italo Calvino; title: Good climate, friendly inhabitants  -- by Nadine Gordimer; title: The jewels  -- by Guy de Maupassant; title: An outpost of progress  -- by Joseph Conrad; title: A retrieved reformation  -- by O. Henry; title: Tears of autumn  -- by Yoshiko Uchida; title: The treasure of Lemon Brown  -- by Walter Dean Myers; title: With all flags flying  -- by Anne Tyler; title: The witness for the prosecution -- by Agatha Christie.